Gladiator 2, the follow-up to Ridley Scott's original 2000 movie, may have only just arrived, but you might already be wondering: will there be a Gladiator 3? With 24 years between the original and the sequel,

DEADLINE: It will confirm your good judgment. He played a tough police detective with a tortured past named Bud White who became this symbol of masculinity. After the film played through, for awhile every pitch in Hollywood was, “imagine Bud White, as a blank.“

Gladiator II, a sequel that debuts nearly a quarter of a century after the original, is a bold, truly epic return to where filmmaker Sir Ridley Scott first made mega fans with Russell Crowe’s quest for vengeance against a corrupt emperor.